Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon
You bring the idea. Build the AI that makes it happen.
The Challenge
Build Your AI Co-Founder is a hackathon where you build and ship a company with a founding team of 2–4 co-founders, combining humans and AI.
Every team must have at least one human and one AI co-founder. You decide the rest—including who takes which role, what you build, and how your founding team works together.
AI co-founders can take any role: CEO, CTO, Product, Marketing, Sales, Research, or anything your company needs.
The goal is to experience what it means to build a real company with AI as part of the founding team—from idea to execution to a shipped product.
Build the Product challenge using Emergent
Using Emergent, build and ship a functional app or MVP for a real-world problem. Your product should be something real people can use and should demonstrate how your human–AI founding team turns an idea into a working company.
The focus is on execution: build a useful product, validate it with real users, and show what your AI co-founder contributed to the journey from idea to launch.
Optional Tracks
Build It: Launch the Business
Turn your idea into a launch-ready business. Your AI co-founder helps with research, permits, costs, suppliers, branding, operations, and the launch plan.
Fund It: Raise Capital
Prepare your company to raise funding. Your AI co-founder researches investors, finds the right fit, builds fundraising materials, and helps manage outreach.
Sell It: Get Customers
Get your first customers. Your AI co-founder identifies prospects, researches them, creates personalized outreach, and supports the sales process.
Grow It: Acquire Users
Build a repeatable growth engine. Your AI co-founder helps define your audience, develop positioning, test channels, run experiments, and measure results.
Make It: Build the Product
Turn an idea or problem into a working product. Your AI co-founder helps validate the problem, define the MVP, design the experience, build, test, and iterate.
Run It: Operate the Business
Make your business run better. Your AI co-founder helps improve processes across scheduling, customers, team coordination, reporting, inventory, and automation.
Choose your own
How It Comes Together
The company is up to you. The co-founders are up to you. The roles are up to you. The track defines what you want to accomplish. For example:
Company is AI bookkeeping platform. Co-founders are Human CEO + Human CTO + AI Product + AI Sales
Track is Sell It. Build the product, find potential customers, run outreach, and aim to secure the first paying customers.
Company is AI travel startup. Co-founders are Human Product Lead + AI CEO + AI Growth. Track is Grow It. Build the product, define the target audience, launch growth experiments, and acquire the first users.
Company is Developer productivity tool. Co-founders are Human CTO + AI Product + AI Marketing. Track is Make It. Validate the problem, build the MVP, test it with developers, and ship a working product.
Choose your company. Build your founding team. Pick your mission. Then go build.